国会记录：2000年9月11日（参议院）
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授权将非歧视性待遇扩展到中华人民共和国[...] Specter先生。[...]我们还有另外两个事项最近出现了 - 我和田纳西州参议员都在合作中参与其中。金博宝正规网址其中一个是关于中华人民共和国为影响美国选举所做的努力的问题，其次是中华人民共和国在间谍活动上的努力。根据我的判断，中国描绘了一种非常激进的姿势。中国已经与许多人在政治舞台上做出了违反美国法律的贡献的人进步，而中国人民共和国在间谍活动中的积极努力（现在是记载）。我在司法部监督部主席的司法小组委员会已经准备了一份关于彼得·霍·伊·李博士的漫长报告。彼得·李（Peter Lee）博士于1997年10月7日至8日向联邦调查局（FBI）承认，他在1985年两次向中华人民共和国科学家提供了机密的核武器设计和测试信息，并给出了机密的反贵宾信息对于1997年5月的中国人来说，现在的间谍活动不仅限于中国人民共和国。但是，当他们在美国招募一名科学家并获取有关我们的机密核武器设计的信息以及有关我们的反海 - 武器程序的信息时，这是非常重要的问题。今天还有另一个主要案例在最前沿，并且已经存在相当长的一段时间，而涉及Wen Ho Lee博士的情况，今天早上的媒体帐户今天晚些时候在几个小时内披露 the Department of Justice has agreed to a plea negotiation for 1 count of a 59-count indictment concerning taking classified material and not maintaining the appropriate classification. This is a case that was under investigation by the Department of Justice Oversight Subcommittee, which I chair, and we had looked into it from October of last year until December 14 when the FBI asked that we cease our oversight inquiries because Dr. Wen Ho Lee was being indicted. We complied with that request so there would be no question at all about any interference in the prosecution of Dr. Wen Ho Lee. Now that the matter is finished, we will move ahead very promptly on that oversight investigation. But the case against Dr. Wen Ho Lee is an extraordinary one which raised very serious questions about whether Dr. Wen Ho Lee provided the People's Republic of China highly classified information. The investigation as to Dr. Lee proceeded from 1982, was accelerated in 1993 and 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997. Then there was a request by the FBI, which was a personal request from FBI Director Louis Freeh, transmitted by Assistant Director John Lewis, who went personally to Attorney General Reno. Attorney General Reno assigned the matter to a man named Daniel Seikaly who had never had any experience with an application for a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In a context that was reasonably clear that the warrant should have been granted, Attorney General Reno rejected that application. Then, inexplicably, from August of 1998 until December of 1999, the FBI did not act to further investigate Dr. Wen Ho Lee. Then, when the Cox Commission was about to publish a report in January of 1999, suddenly the Department of Justice and the FBI sprang into action, but did not take any steps to terminate Dr. Lee until March, and no steps to get a search warrant until April. Now there is no doubt that Dr. Wen Ho Lee is entitled to the presumption of innocence as to passing any matters to the People's Republic of China, which was the essence of the FBI investigation. Equally, there is no doubt that the Department of Justice has been convicted of extraordinary incompetence in the way this case has been handled, and the questions as to whether the People's Republic of China gathered key information remain unanswered and perhaps will be illuminated by oversight by our Judiciary Subcommittee. But it is hard to understand how the Department of Justice could maintain last week that Dr. Wen Ho Lee had information at his disposal that would "change the global strategic balance'' or could "result in the military defeat of America's conventional forces,'' posing the "gravest possible security risk to the supreme national interests'' of the United States. So when the matter is concluded--as we have every reason to suspect it will be--with the plea bargain, the Department of Justice is going to have a great many questions to answer in terms of why they permitted Dr. Wen Ho Lee to have access to classified information for such a protracted period of time when they had very substantial probable cause, as shown in the application for the warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that there were connections with the People's Republic of China, which might have access to very important nuclear secrets. I mention that case because here is another illustration like the Dr. Peter [[Page S8308]] Lee case where there were questions in the Dr. Peter Lee case, and he confessed and was convicted of passing secrets to the People's Republic of China. But in the long investigation on Dr. Wen Ho Lee, the Department of Justice is going to have some very important questions to answer about why Dr. Wen Ho Lee was enabled to have access to this classified information for such a long period of time, and why they kept him in detention with arguments which they have made. They argued even that on his release he should not have contact with his wife on their assertion that she might pass this highly classified information on, and fought it even to the Court of Appeals. Now, suddenly, in a day of reversal of position, which by the accounts will result in Dr. Wen Ho Lee's release later today, is really very extraordinary. The incompetence of the Department of Justice is obvious. The Department of Justice owes an explanation perhaps to Dr. Wen Ho Lee and to the people of the United States for their bungling of that case. But the point of the matter is, and it is sufficient really for Dr. Peter Lee's case, that you have an aggressive People's Republic of China which is after U.S. military secrets. [...]